I'm sure this is getting boring for some of you, but WOW! it's really helping me! I stayed on track yesterday again. :) I didn't eat my apple, so I had one pumpkin chocolate chip cookie instead after dinner. I am feeling so good. I also realized that I don't think about food as much when it's all planned and ready.

Meal Plan for Today 9/30:
Malt O Meal with Splenda
Strawberry Smoothie
Grapes
Sandwich
String Cheese
100 calorie CheezIts
Apple
Banana Bread
Omelet with cheese, bell peppers, spinach, onions, bacon bits

Meal Plan Success!!!

Yesterday was a success! I stuck to my meal plan. Even when Brandon and I went to see "Arsenic and Old Lace" and I REALLY wanted a candy bar. But then I thought about it and didn't want it as much as I want to be healthy and fit. I chewed some gum instead. I know it's only been one day, but I'm really proud of myself!

Today's Meal Plan:
Oatmeal and Grapes
Baked Potatoe with chives, cheese, and bacon
Apple with 1 Tbls. peanut butter
Banana Bread (for my class tonight if I get hungry, I have a test and want to be prepared!)
Spaghetti and veggies

Meal Plan for Today

I did it! I planned meals for a few days.
Today my plan is...
Breakfast: Banana bread and apple
Snack: string cheese
Lunch: Teriyaki chicken kabobs and brown rice
Snack: 94% Fat Free popcorm
Dinner: Tuna fish Sandwich, hard boiled egg and maybe pineapple if I feel like it!

Wow, this planning thing is going be really good.

Starting Over

Today I went to my Weight Watchers meeting in Holladay. I hadn't gone all last month, with the craziness of moving and starting school, but today I found where the new meeting is and went. It's the first time I was over my Lifetime Goal and had to pay for the meeting. I weighed in at 153.8 lbs. I have gained 6.8 lbs since starting the blog. But this is the start of a new day.

We talked about trigger foods today in my meetings and expanding our definitions of things. Like Success. Success is not just making the numbers go down on the scale. We need to expand our definitions to recognize more forms of success. My success today is going to my meeting. They also talked about an intersting concept with trigger foods. They said that one of the reasons we have trigger foods is because we deprive ourselves of them. If we work them into our diets, they don't become so desirable.

The main thing we talked about this week is preparing. "If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else." Preparing by 1. Setting Goals 2. Making time 3. Meal Planning, and the rest I can't remember because I didn't write down. The main thing I am going to focus on this week is Meal Planning.

I'm going to take stock of my pantry and fridge, then make a meal plan for the week. Here's to Shrinking me!!!!!! :)

Here's Some Inspiration For Me and You

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there." Unknown Author

"You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance." Lee Iacocca

"If we defend our habits, we have no intentions of quitting them."

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." ~ Deepak Chopra ~

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn Vos Savant

Time to get back on the wagon. Time to decide to not drown in the water by statying there, but swim and fight and kick til I get out of the water. Time to persevere. Time to make the choice to do it.